What is Edge Computing?
Understand the definition, principles, and common use cases of edge computing in modern web development.
What is Edge Computing?
Edge computing moves computation and data storage close to where your users actually are, instead of one distant data center. Processing happens at the edge of the network.
Why Not Just The Cloud?
The classic cloud is powerful, but far-flung users pay for it in latency, bandwidth costs, and single points of failure. Edge exists to soften all three.
All lessons in this course
- What is Edge Computing?
- Cloudflare Workers: An Overview
- Deno: A Runtime for the Edge
- Edge vs Cloud vs CDN